I first noticed the terminal mentioning it after I installed node.js so I'm guessing node.js installed it. it is usually created when using the vipw command (or vipw -s) to safely edit the passwd/shadow files. tags: added: verification-doneremoved: verification-needed Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2012-10-15: Update Released #36 The verification of this Stable Release Update has completed successfully and the package has now been released to What should I do get to get around it ?

Tried reboots in between. The package in precise-proposed and is still pending verification. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Have you changed /etc/passwd?

affects: postfix (Ubuntu) → shadow (Ubuntu) Chris Howard (guru42101) wrote on 2010-03-04: #9 From what I could tell the passwd.lock and shadow.lock files had not been removed. mv .pwd.lock .pwdlockbak. bzw. We Acted.